This is in response to the article “Tug of war hits South Shore; Residents fight plan for islands in lake” (Metro, March 4). Friends of the Parks commends the Chicago Tribune for its ...

Preservation Chicago also singled out Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid as something that would have had a negative impact on most lakefront parks. Chicago ended up losing the 2016 bid to Rio de Janeiro.

Currently, the Chicago Park District has a $464 million budget to manage 606 parks. Maintenance funds are sometimes stretched thin. Designating the lakefront a national park would require a ...

The Chicago Park District needs to do a better job of providing public toilets in its parks. Along the lakefront, there are no public toilets available from September to May despite the fact that ...

A rendering of what the Lucas Museum would look like at a proposed site at McCormick Place East. Share Follow @csteditorials The Friends of the Parks are no friends of Chicago’s lakefront, not ...

Chicago’s sparkling lakefront may get all the attention. But many of Chicago’s legacy neighborhood parks remain open during the coronavirus pandemic: Humboldt Park, Riis Park, Washington Park ...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned she will shut down the parks and the entire lakefront if people continue to disregard social distancing guidelines, during a Wednesday afternoon update on the ...

“Chicago’s lakefront and its parks are not well kept as they could be and often suffer from deferred maintenance,” said Miller. “This proposal could lift a substantial financial burden off ...

Chicago parks group expresses ‘frustration' at Chicago Bears' stadium plan Friends of the Parks successfully sued to prevent George Lucas from building a museum along the lakefront and has ...

The group Preservation Chicago wants to make the city’s lakefront and its nearby parks a National Park. While there are only 61 such parks across the country, the latest to be designated is in ...

14 secret parks and gardens in Chicago Green rooftops, tucked away gardens, beautiful parks By AJ LaTrace , Sara Freund , and Ryan Smith Updated Sep 5, 2019, 12:56pm CDT ...